 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...humble kind. If Queensberry to strip there '• no compelling, Tis from a handmaid we must take a Helen. From peer or bishop 'tis no easy thing To draw the man who loves his God or kingi Alas! I copy (or my draught would fail) From honest Mahomet or plain parson Hale. But grant,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1839 - 510 pages
...kind. If (¿lEENsiiEiiHY to strip there's no compelling, 'Tis from a handmaid we must take a Helen. From peer or bishop 'tis no easy thing To draw the...Alas ! I copy (or my draught would fail) From honest Mah'mct ', or plain 1'arson Hale. But graut, in public, men sometimes are shown 3, A woman's seen in... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...humble kind. If Queensbcrry to strip there's no compelling, Tis from a handmaid we must take a Helen. Rut grant, in public, men sometimes are shown, A woman's seen in private life alone: Our bolder talents... | |
 | William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1841 - 840 pages
...the most awful distance, for himself." Pope thus records Mahomet's worth in a poetical epistle :— From peer or bishop 'tis no easy thing To draw the...or king. Alas ! I copy (or my draught would fail) Prom Honest Mah'met.or plain Parson Hale. There is a portrait of Mahomet, and another of Mustapha,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 476 pages
...their royal master. It is to one of these individuals that Pope alludes in his " Essay oh Women." " From peer or bishop 'tis no easy thing, To draw the...Alas! I copy, or my draught would fail, From honest Mahomet or plain parson Hale." Altogether, the rapacity of the German adventurers ; the ridiculous... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...humble kind. If Queensberry to strip there's no compelling, Til from a handmaid we must take a Helen. From peer or bishop 'tis no easy thing To draw the...God, or king : Alas ! I copy (or my draught would foil) From honest Mah'mct, or plain parson Hale. But grant, in public, men sometimes are shown, A woman... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1845 - 978 pages
...which they soon made in a condition to be used only as a pig-sty. CHAPTER XI. PIPING TIMES AT COURT. From peer or bishop 'tis no easy thing To draw the...Alas ! I copy; or my draught would fail, From honest Mahomet or plain parson Hale. POPE. ONCE more we must return to courtly scenes, or rather to scenes... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1845 - 332 pages
...which they soon made in a condition to be used only as a pig-sty. CHAPTER XI. PIPING TIMES AT COURT. From peer or bishop 'tis no easy thing To draw the...Alas ! I copy ; or my draught would fail. From honest Mahomet or plain parson Hale. POPB. ONCE more we must return to courtly scenes, or rather to scenes... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...Queensherry to strip there's no compelling, 'Tis from a handmaid we must take a Helen. From peer or hishop, 'tis no easy thing To draw the man who loves his God or king; Alas ! I copy (or my draught would fsil) From honest Mahomet or plain parson Hale. But grant, in puhlic men sometimes are shown, A woman's... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...humble kind. If QUEENSBERRY to strip there 's no compelling, 'Tis from a handmaid we must take a Helen. From peer or bishop 'tis no easy thing To draw the...Alas ! I copy (or my draught would fail) From honest Mah'metd, or plain Parson Hale e. But grant, in public, men sometimes are shown ', A woman 's seen... | |
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Th' exactest traits of body or of mind, We owe to models of an humble kind. If Queensberry to strip there's no compelling, Tis from a handmaid we must take a Helen. From peer or bishop 'tis no easy thing To draw the man who loves his God, or king : Alas... 
